Porter tract



(No Model.)

P. TRACY.

BLAGKING BRUSH.

110.415,008. Patented 110V.l 12, 1889.

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UNrrED STATES i PATENT FFICE.

PORTER TRACY, OF VASIIINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-

BLAcKlNe-BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,008, dated November 12, 1889.

Application tiled Jiine 21, 1888. Serial No. 277,849. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.;

Be it known that VI, PORTER-TRACY, residing at Vashington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blacking-Brushes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. I

This invention relat-es to brushes, or, as they are technically called, daubers,7 for applying blacking and similar substances to boots, harness, te

The object of the invention is to construct a brush which can be readily used in con-v nection with a blacking-box, the-handle of the brush serving as a blacking-box holder and by which the box may be made to feed blacking to the rotary brush or not, as may The invention consists in the construction hereinafter explained.

Figure 1 is a perspective View showing a bent-wire handle, a blacking-box with cover attached to one end of the handle, a brush attached to the other end of said handle, and a wire loop on the handle. Fig. 2 is an inside perspective view of a box-cover with broken piece of wire handle attached. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of reversible box. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing mode of use of dauber.

The reference-letter d indicates a blacking-box of tin or other material. The box by preference has a ridge b in the middle of its otherwise cylindrical side. A cover c is made to embrace either end of the box d, and fit tightly enough to hold the box when desirable. A bent wire d is attached to the box-cover either by solder, as indicated in as in Fig. 2, or by other mode of attachment. The wire d is a spring-wire bent .at c to return in a direction alittle diverging from the part d', which extends out from the boxcover, as at cl2, Fig. 1. rIhe part f of the wire is bent to form an axle'g for a brush h at such distance from the box ct as to hold the brush in acdirection extending across the face of the box. The brush h is free to rotate on its axial wire. The spring of the' wire will hold the brush 7L a little distance away from the blacking in box a1, the same being held by cover c unless the two ends of t-he wire y lieve the hand of the operator from the strain of compressing the two arms of the spring toward each other. A

Vhen applied as in Fig. 2, the cover can turn round in its wire clasp, so as to bring different parts of the box in position to be used by the brush.

The return bend of the wire forms the handle. The loop Z may slide along this handle to hold the brush and box in convenient relation to each other.

' The box-cover c may be itself a receptacle for blacking and then becomes a box.

` The device may be sold separately from the blacking-box, the clamp or clasp cl3 being readily bent to form and serving to hold any usual form of box to which it may be applied.

1. Ablacking-box and brush-handle consisting of a wire attached to the box-cover, a box which fits said cover, and a rotary brush carried by a wire in proximity to the mouth of the box.

2. The combination, witha box, of aspringwire connected thereto and extending out therefrom, said wire having a return bend and forming a support for a brush, and a rotary brush borne on said support in position to be moved to the mouth of the box or to spring away therefrom, substantially as described. v

3. The combination of a box, a bent-wire spring having one end connected to the box and the other end forming an axle near the mouth -of the box7 a rotary brush on said IOO axle, and a sliding loop on the bentsvlre, all substantially as described.

4. A dauber for applying blaoking, oonsisting of a rotary brush on a wir@ support, said wire support forming allnndle and hay ing :L box-clasp in position to hold inbox nezu the brush, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PORTER TRACY. \Vit11ossos:

PHILIP lvIAURo, W. A. BAR'PLE'M. 

